Lots of Opportunity

Louisville, Ky., is dotted
with vacant lots
and buildings that are
ripe for redevelopment. The
city, in fact, owns hundreds of
such properties. But potential
buyers can’t even start bidding
on those sites if they lack basic
information about what’s available.
“Most cities don’t know
what they own,” says Cristina
Garmendia, cofounder of
Opportunity
Space, a Bostonbased
start-up that has developed
an online platform that
makes data about surplus government
property more open
and more...

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